英文摘要 |
This study explored the correlation between the syntactic-semantic features of wh-words and Chinese language learners’ (CLLs’) errors. The results can be used as a reference for teaching planning or evaluation designing. The Chinese Learner Corpus was employed to analyze the use of the Chinese wh-word “zenme(yang).” We discovered the following: (1) the correlation between syntactic position and CLLs’ errors was significant. Outer-adverbial wh-words were often mistakenly added, inner-adverbial wh-words were often placed incorrectly within the sentence order, and verbal-phrase wh-words were often mistakenly replaced. (2) The association between semantic sentence type and CLLs’ errors was significant. The error rate for expressions including exclamations, reasons, results, and indicators of degree was higher than average, whereas that for expressions including rhetorical structures and indications of manner was lower than average. (3) With respect to language background and gender, the error rate of Vietnamese CLLs was 4.29%, whereas that of Indonesian CLLs was 27.59%, with the error rate of Indonesian CLLs being much higher than average. The error rate of men was higher than that of women, although the difference was nonsignificant. (4) Regarding language typology, CLLs whose mother tongues involving multiple wh-movement had the highest error rate (20%), whereas those speaking languages involving wh-movement had the lowest rate (3.64%). Teachers are recommended to teach students according to their proficiency and design courses by taking consideration into common learning difficulties or CLLs’ language backgrounds. |